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Eason Celebrates … Irish Women’s Fiction

Eason hosted a celebration of Irish Women’s Fiction at an intimate event on Thursday 31 March, 2011 in Eason O’Connell Street. The event provided readers with the opportunity to meet their favourite female writers.

The event was the first in an “Eason Celebrates….” series of literary events due to take place this year. The “Eason Celebrates…Irish Women’s Fiction” event was headlined by bestselling Irish fiction author, Patricia Scanlan, and was attended by an impressive line-up of 36 of Ireland’s most popular female literary talent.

Irish women writers accounted for an incredible 20% of general fiction sales in Ireland in 2010, and are estimated to be worth some €10million in sales.

Maria Dickenson, Head of Purchasing at Eason said, ‘We are extraordinarily lucky as booksellers as readers to have such a wealth of writing talent in Ireland, and our women writers are well-known and well-loved at home and abroad for their talent, imagination, warmth and humour. We wanted to take the opportunity to say thank you to our writers and to give members of the public the opportunity to celebrate their favourite writers!’

The full list of authors who attended the event and their most recent titles are as follows -